Zooplankton Compostions

Alpha diversity is defined as the mean diversity of species in samples.

First and more straight forward method = counting the number of different ASVs in each sample.

Here the idea is to verify if the clusters created in the compositions, are geo-spatial coherent.

The first try was to, given the clusters:

• sum the distances between samples within the same cluster
  • related to Latitude and Depth - Using the Euclidian distance (no transformations until now)
  • related to Abiotic Features (Temperature, Salinity and Pressure)